I'm a newbie to Kurobox Pro, little experienced in Linux. I followed this guide and was able to install the Armel Debian. I don't have a serial port yet and manipulated the environment variables using nvram command. I now want to have the netcat enabled so that I can play around while booting.

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You could pretty much follow this guide keystroke for keystroke to do it. It is suggested that you read the man pages for fdisk & read up on it, as well.

To answer your question I would NOT do it this way. You really REALLY should to solder in a header for serial console access before attempting to do this. However I am interested to know how you did this without serial console access? There was some talk of a netconsole enabled uboot on the forums as well: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9781

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1404-30401, default 30401): '''<enter>''' Using default value 30401

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===Change sda5 to Swap===

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The default type of partition is Ext3 (83), so we only need to change the type on partition 5, to Swap (82).

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Command (m for help): '''t'''

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Partition number (1-7): '''5'''

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Hex code (type L to list codes): '''82'''

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Changed system type of partition 5 to 82 (Linux swap)

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===Print the partition map to see that it is what we want===

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[[User:Ramuk|Ramuk]] 00:13, 1 August 2008 (BST)

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Command (m for help): '''p'''

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Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes

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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders

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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

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/dev/sda1 1 123 987966 83 Linux

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/dev/sda2 124 1340 9775552+ 83 Linux

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/dev/sda4 1341 30401 233432482+ 5 Extended

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/dev/sda5 1341 1403 506016 82 Linux swap

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/dev/sda6 1404 30401 223150851 83 Linux

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===Write the partitions to the hard drive===

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Command (m for help): '''w'''

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The partition table has been altered!

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Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table

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Latest revision as of 23:22, 31 July 2008

I'm a newbie to Kurobox Pro, little experienced in Linux. I followed this guide and was able to install the Armel Debian. I don't have a serial port yet and manipulated the environment variables using nvram command. I now want to have the netcat enabled so that I can play around while booting.

Is there a updated uboot that I can use to flash for this box?

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To answer your question I would NOT do it this way. You really REALLY should to solder in a header for serial console access before attempting to do this. However I am interested to know how you did this without serial console access? There was some talk of a netconsole enabled uboot on the forums as well: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9781